Wise Ones,
I am trying to print out the field names of each table in a mysql db and then the values.

I can get the values and the field names but I can't seem to get them in the format I want.
I basically want to output the contents of a database with several tables in CSV format, like so: 

field1, field2, f3, f4, f5
Value1, value2, v3, v4, v5
Value1, value2, v3, v4, v5

field1, field2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7
Value1, value2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7
Value1, value2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7

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The problem I keep getting is that i'm printing the field names and values for each row in the table. Can't just seem to print the field names then each row below.

The snippet below does what I have described, from processing each table in the database. 

        
if ($format eq "CSV") 
{
  while ($row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
  {
    while( my ($k, $v) = each %{$row} ) 
    {
      print $k;
    }
    foreach $col (keys %{$row}) 
    {
      print $$row{$col} . ",";
    }
    print "\n";
  }
  print "\n";
}

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Im sure there's a fairly easy answer to this but I cant seem to find it in the DBI tutorial here or through searching google.

Cheers, Steve

In reply to Obtaining field names only by Anonymous Monk

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